The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round

Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will besilent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

To enjoy the beauty of life, live in the moment, not in the past or future.

I never wanted to regret the kisses I missed.

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.

On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

My work is a game, a very serious game.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.